After Lunch Drinks at Cover Girls

It has been a while since I stopped into CG. I had some extra time and ran by there. It was slooooow. One dancer told me that it has been slow for a few weeks. So I figured the girls might be hungry. There were several Hispanic girls there, their English was poor. I met a newbie and she was boring, then I happened upon one old lady and she made the trip with while.

My question is - Is this the norm these days at the clubs? If so, I hope it turns around soon.

Several different big name clubs, including CG and Centerfolds, do not start the show for the early paying customers. They prefer to wait until more customers arrive. The cycle begins...why come in early, pay a cover charge, and dancers are not dancing? Slow is correctly deserved. A top club in Dallas has always started a five dancer rotation right at the opening minute, and by 3 pm or so, it is seven dancers. That is the famous Baby Dolls on Shady Trail, and it rocks.

Yeah not crazy about the place. Very hit or miss

NW Houston clubs aren't doing too well. Solid platinum and mirage look like they closed their doors recently. Sunset strip looked like shit the one time I decided to go in. They're leaving free door passes and advertising 1 dollar drinks before 9pm. That's a sure sign that they're in deep shit, financially. The one time I went, the usual waitresses and bartenders were gone and there were nothing but short obese, hispanic women as waitresses and behind the bar. Obese in a strip club is a no no unless it's a shithole. That place went to hell.

I'm not surprised CG is feeling the hurt. I wonder how other parts of houston are doing.

CG is a nice club, but I've never seen it busy, never more than 5 or so girls even at night. I only had my eyes on one, Michelle the waitress and later dancer. I was able to check her off the list.

Summertime is slow for all stripclubs. I live right by CG,and they average about 15-20 girls ,tue thru Saturday night. It will all pick up once football season kicks off...

Management often does the exact opposite of good practices if their club starts to sink. I have seen them raise prices and/or add additional fees. For instance, that one corner where you have always sat for free has now become a "VIP" area, with a second charge to sit there. Actions like that cause customers to go elsewhere. As customers disappear, the dancers disappear...downward spiral.

The other way around is when management starts to nickel and dime the dancers. When dancers leave, customers leave. It seems to me that a well managed club will take efforts to keep dancers who make customers happy. Hint: dancers sitting with their cellphones are not making customers happy.

Have to agree with Wally about the cellphones. They seem to have proliferated since the Cubana invasion. With their aggressive style, approach, "Hi, you want dance?" okay back to my cellphone.

Has anyone else noticed that the Cubanas also see to be very "territorial"? once one of them dances for you the others seem to stay away. (or maybe it's my breath?)

I went to a club a couple of months ago that had over a dozen dancers on their phones. There must have been that many tables with customers waiting but only one had a dancer sitting with them. Seems like everyone’s getting lazier including strippers.